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Reply to Rigil III SpacePort in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Don't feed the troll.

Reply to Players without empires, this is your only warning in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If it requires me to join....or in any way affiliates me with another group of people...or has the word "Empire" in it.... Then it's an Empire in all but name (a Star Democracy?). I thought I was already part of the "independent players". What do you call an independant player who doesn't join the independant players empire? :D

Reply to GalCiv vs MOO2 (for GalCiv 2) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Very late in the game I'd have an "emergency defence" design - basically a battleship (not a titan) which mounted one stellar converter, maybe one or two other guns if I had the space and shield enhancing/repair techs. They were throwaway ships that I could rush-buy a load of because they were so cheap, in case I suddenly spotted an enemy attack fleet on its way. They were my "Suicide Class" battleships :D

Reply to Drengin.net for developers? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've only just found the right address to e-mail. Thanks for the suggestion :)

Drengin.net for developers? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't think this is the right place to ask, but I don't know where else to post it. How does Drengin.net work for developers? Some people suggested that I could ask Stardock to use drengin.net to distribute a game I'm writing. It's maybe not the right kind of game as it's entirely online but I thought I'd ask in case :)

Reply to GalCiv vs MOO2 (for GalCiv 2) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]That's funny...I've done somewhat the same thing. [/quote] Oddly enough, I'm doing the same thing now too LOL The most complex games I ever wrote were two quite extensive Bard's Tale style RPGs, so not quite the same type of game, but hey, the first one was on a machine that had 20K (as in 20000 BYTES) of usable memory - with lots of heavy disc-swapping, I managed to squeeze a 400K game into it. Ah, the lengths we had to go to in those days...plus some pretty good (if I do say so

Reply to GalCiv vs MOO2 (for GalCiv 2) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

GC does suffer from something in this regard (I just had it today) - 100 Altarian Corvettes trying to take down one dreadnought. As they had difficulty damaging it, it took quite some time for 70-odd attacks to be resolved (I happened to have the screen in the sector where this was happening).

Reply to Precursor planet? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I had a blue star that I colonised with one cruddy planet (PQ14), that I upgraded to PQ18. A little while later, I checked it. It had a few million population (no more than 120mil), and an influence nearly as high as my home system with its 3 planets (one of which was PQ26) and 13 billion population! It's not like the planet had many culture increasing modules or anything, and was quite a distance from any of my other systems.

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

OK, dug out a few old articles on Venusian terraforming. The lack of a magnetic field on Venus is not necessarily a problem. Assuming the atmosphere could be transformed into an Earth-like one, it should provide sufficient shielding from radiation - Earth's would, even in the absence of the Van Allen belts. It could be possible to stimulate a magnetic sphere, and solve the day/night issue by increasing Venus' rotation speed. Controlled asteroid strikes is one suggestion (althou

Reply to Help with AP 1.49c[b].002 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No problems, but I hope you can see why I asked. I also thought that perhaps because of the wincustomize hack a while ago that not all ranks might have been restored.

Reply to Your first time.... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Huh?

Reply to Help with AP 1.49c[b].002 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I do not want you to think we are ignoring you.It is Sunday but I am sure the Stardock people will be able to help you out.[/quote] I've got to ask just to clarify it for myself, Technician, and please don't take this the wrong way - are you an employee of Stardock?

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]class M planets[/quote] You mean PQ15 planets right? LOL

Reply to Trade Goods and Wonders in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

*LET-US-EXECUTE-INTERFACE-PROTOCOL-001* *NOT-TONIGHT-DARLING-MY-CEREBRAL-UNIT-IS-EXPERIENCING-MALFUNCTIONS*

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]With no magnetic field*, hence little natural solar radiation protection Venus would be bad news for anything with genes.[/quote] Absolutely true, but Mars also lacks a global magnetic field. It does have large, localised fields, but you're right, in comparison, it receives far less solar radiation than Venus. With regards Venus' heavy atmosphere, I'm assuming we would be able to terraform it to reverse the greenhouse effect (somehow!), which would reduce the surface tem

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I only had that event once, and never had it again after updating to 1.13... (:( If we humans were to ever look to terraform a planet, Venus would probably be a better candidate than Mars. If you could somehow reverse the greenhouse effect, perhaps through CO2 consuming bacteria (although my biology is spotty at best, someone else could correct my theory here), Venus would be much more hospitable to long-term human habitation, just through the factor of surface gravity alone. T

Reply to Strange Drengin Tactics? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've seen this before as well, except that it was the Arceans vs a minor race. Once the Arceans had destroyed the minor's fleet, they just sort of floated around, destroying any minor ships as they were built. So I gave the minor a few Avatars to bolster their military :D

Reply to Are we going to see more logistics tech options? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]As for devence.. even the death star was really rather week.. (it was protected by a forcefield.. which even 1 little fighter was able to penitrate...... [/quote] It definitely wasn't weak. The Death Star carried over 60 times the firepower of a Imperator Class Star Destroyer - and that's not including the superlaser, as well as 100 times as many fighter craft. Its weakness was that it was designed to repel attacks from capital ships, rather than from small figh

Reply to Are we going to see more logistics tech options? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Then what's the point of ANY defence modules if starbases are so weak that you have to do this anyway? They might as well have a big red X on them and a sign saying "Shoot Me"...

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Ook Ook-I think it radiates both energy and visible light.[/quote] I've not seen a reference to Jupiter radiating visible light, but Saturn does have a level of luminosity. One explanation I've seen is that this could be due to helium raining down into the core, but I'm uncertain as to how this works. The same mechanism could be at work in Jupiter. The other thing to remember is that the core is believed to be extremely hot (12000K-20000K) due to gravitational compressio

Reply to Minor Races and PQ in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

The spontaneous minors in the last game I played only had their planets at 16, not 18.

Reply to A beginner's question on starbases in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1) The bonuses affect the sector that they are in. However, regarding culture, see below. 2) Culture improvements increase the amount of culture that system gives out. When you increase the culture of any planet, it directly affects your culture influence in both the sector it's in, and the surrounding sectors. The effect is weaker in surrounding sectors than in the star system's own sector. However, the amount of cultural influence you have in any sector is also affec

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Do you actually mean visible light, or do you mean energy? Jupiter does radiate more energy than it receives, normally thought to be because gravitational compression is heating up the core. There is another theory though that the core is composed of radioactive materials which, under the conditions under Jupiter's atmosphere, causes nuclear *fission* (not fusion). [Message Edited]

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]you are wrong there Ook Ook, it only took little to ingnite a fusion at Jupiter:[/quote] No. For a gaseous body to (briefly) fuse deuterium NATURALLY through core pressure and temperature, it must have at least 13 Jupiter masses, which makes it a substellar object (i.e. a brown dwarf), rather than a planet. Jupiter's core pressure is not great enough for this to occur naturally. An object of 0.08 solar masses or greater can fuse hydrogen into helium, and therefore is a s

Reply to I wonder what the PQ is... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm. For Jupiter to qualify as a brown dwarf, it would need to be capable of deuterium fission, and that would require it to be at least 12 times more massive. I don't think there is enough matter in the rest of the Solar System put together to make that the case, even including the EK belt and Oort cloud.